[OE-core] [PATCH] meta: start to ignore the largefile distro feature

[Burton, Ross]

CCing openembedded-architecture to open the field for comments.

On 7 March 2017 at 04:58, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> The largefile distro feature has been enabled by default in oe-core
> for a long time and, more recently, also in poky-tiny. Building
> without the largefile distro feature receives little or no testing.
> Many packages now enable LFS without exposing a configure option, so
> there should be very little expectation that disabling the distro
> feature will result in a distro which globally disables LFS.
>

So I've had a bug for this for some time but have never got around to it.

If we're going to assert "LFS by default" do we want a sanity check to
verify it was used?

Do we want to put -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the default
CFLAGS?

I'm not aware of any good reason to not use LFS, but now is the time for
anyone else to speak up if you have a good reason to keep it as an option!

Ross
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